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First-Level Managers


Programs & Services Description
BASIS Report for Selection As a Hogan Alliance Partner, we are proud to offer Hogan Assessment Systems’ BASIS Report for Selection. The BASIS Report effectively predicts a job candidate’s fit for success in the target job AND the candidate’s fit with your organization’s culture and values. Results are provided in a comprehensive, yet easy-to-understand format that, as part of an overall selection process, will help you make the best hiring decision possible.
Coaching for Performance Part of our Leading for Performance leadership development series, this one-day module provides an effective, structured coaching approach that taps employees’ potential and leads to improved performance and fulfillment.
Communicating with Purpose Part of our Leading for Performance leadership development series, this half-day module provides the skills that facilitate and promote good communication in business. Participants explore common obstacles to effective business communication and examine a proven model for facilitating it.
Creating an Empowering Environment Part of our Leading for Performance leadership development series, this module offers invaluable insights into how empowering employees to make decisions and take risks infuses new ideas, competence, and confidence into everyday work life. Participants learn best practices to empower people.
Interviewing for Selection Part of our Leading for Performance leadership development series, Interviewing for Selection is a one-day module that offers leaders behavioral interviewing skills that have been proven to dramatically enhance an organization’s employee selection process.
Managing Human Performance Managing Human Performance provides a systematic leadership development approach to effectively manage the performance of individual employees. This leadership program teaches skills in setting objectives, observing and documenting performance, coaching, conducting performance reviews, and planning for employee development.
Negotiating to Yes Salespeople learn a proven approach for turning face-to-face confrontation into side-by-side problem solving. This efficient process helps salespeople reach optimal business agreements that are satisfying to both parties and actually strengthen professional relationships.
Managing Styles in Conflict Part of our Leading for Performance leadership development series, this half-day module helps leaders understand the nature of conflict in an organization and typical behavioral responses to it. They learn indispensable techniques and skills for achieving a collaborative, win-win approach to conflict.
Meeting Leadership Challenges Part of our Leading for Performance leadership development series, this half-day module helps managers learn how to shift their attention away from output and toward creating optimal conditions in three key leadership action areas.
Motivating for Results Part of our Leading for Performance leadership development series, this half-day module teaches managers how to enhance motivation in a work unit. Managers learn how to assess motivational issues and how to take action to address them successfully.
Problem Solving Part of our Leading for Performance leadership development series, this one-day module teaches leaders a process for effective problem solving. Participants will learn a six-step problem-solving process and gain the skills necessary to recognize and overcome barriers to problem solving.
Reviewing Performance Part of our Leading for Performance leadership development series, this half-day module offers managers invaluable insights into what constitutes an effective employee performance review and how to make the review process beneficial for both managers and employees.
Setting Goals for Success Part of our Leading for Performance leadership development series, this half-day module explores proven goal-setting processes, best practices for linking goals to strategy execution, and the importance of setting goals that address both performance and fulfillment considerations.
Working Styles Part of our Leading for Performance leadership development series, this one-day module based on the Social Styles model helps managers understand how to adapt their behavior to communicate better and improve teamwork and cooperation.
Impact Evaluation Our Impact Evaluation services are designed to answer a deceptively simple question: Did you get the desired result from your performance improvement efforts? Options include post-course Impact Surveys, which measure behavior and performance changes; Opportunity Reviews that examine employees’ performance changes using a case study approach; and Business Metrics Analysis, a research-based approach that determines the effects of your performance improvement effort on your specific metric of interest (e.g., revenue, quota, productivity). All of our Impact Evaluation services can be customized to address your specific needs.


Mid-Level Managers


Programs & Services Description
BASIS Report for Selection As a Hogan Alliance Partner, we are proud to offer Hogan Assessment Systems’ BASIS Report for Selection. The BASIS Report effectively predicts a job candidate’s fit for success in the target job AND the candidate’s fit with your organization’s culture and values. Results are provided in a comprehensive, yet easy-to-understand format that, as part of an overall selection process, will help you make the best hiring decision possible.
Building Relationship Versatility Building Relationship Versatility is an update of Wilson Learning’s highly successful Social Style™ Series. It provides participants with results-oriented versatility skills that help them improve their ability to work effectively with others. Participants develop leadership skills, and learn how to build productive relationships, handle conflict, and create more productive teams.
Coaching for Performance Coaching for Performance helps individuals and organizations integrate new skills into daily behavior. Experienced, certified coaches work with individuals and organizations to ensure that leadership development investment yields expected results. Wilson Learning coaches work with high-potential individuals and teams to build and execute growth plans and employ best practices in their work.
Creating Team Mastery This business leadership skills course helps leaders create a high-performance and fulfilling response to increasing challenges that teams face today. The program helps teams sharpen their purpose and vision, discover how unrecognized talents can bring unexpected contributions, and create a dynamic balance between individual fulfillment and team performance.
Global Awareness Global Awareness is designed to help global staff understand the effect of five cross-cultural dimensions of business interaction: Task & Relationship, Power Distance, Uncertainty Avoidance, Individualism/Collectivism, and Context Communication. Through lessons, video clips, and simulations, participants learn techniques and skills to improve international business communication.
Innovation in Action The Innovation in Action series offers ways of defining and then removing the barriers to creativity on both the individual and organizational levels. Participants learn about Innovation Styles and Innovation Tools that help expand thinking and creativity. They also learn how to build synergy and value others’ Innovation Styles when working with clients and colleagues.
Interviewing for Selection Part of our Leading for Performance leadership development series, Interviewing for Selection is a one-day module that offers leaders behavioral interviewing skills that have been proven to dramatically enhance an organization’s employee selection process.
The Leader Manager This business leadership skills course provides a framework and skills for a leader to enable the work unit to achieve Performance with Fulfillment—the combination of high performance and high satisfaction from meaningful work done well. It teaches managers how to make the shift from simply being managers to being effective leaders, and creating employee engagement.
Leader Navigator This 360-degree feedback process is for leaders at all levels. It evaluates the leadership skills a successful leader needs. The individual report includes recommendations and resources to support developing or improving the leader’s highest-priority skill needs. Results can also be aggregated to look at group-level strengths and development opportunities.
Leadership Forecast Series The Leadership Forecast Series provides important insight about the behavioral tendencies and motivational drivers that can either enhance or inhibit a leader's potential for success.
Leading for Growth Leading for Growth draws on the work of David Bradford and Allan Cohen, authors of Power Up, to help managers develop leadership skills and create high-performing work groups with high levels of alignment, commitment, and common purpose.
Leading in Challenging Times Leading in Challenging Times helps leaders understand their role in implementing business strategy, and helps them execute strategy during times of change, take charge of the change process, and refocus people’s energy to move positively through change.
Negotiating to Yes Negotiating to Yes provides leaders and professionals with personal influence and negotiation skills. This course is based on the best-selling work of Dr. William Ury of the Harvard Negotiation Team. This leadership course builds skills in questioning, listening, problem solving, persuading, strategizing, and countering the unfair tactics used by others.
Taking Smart Risks During this half-day leadership development program, leaders explore a process for making sound risk decisions. They learn how to use the Risk Analysis Cycle and understand the Risk Protection Strategy for ensuring the success of risks.
Impact Evaluation Our Impact Evaluation services are designed to answer a deceptively simple question – did you get the desired result from your performance improvement efforts? Options include post-course Impact Surveys, which measure behavior and performance changes; Opportunity Reviews that examine employees’ performance changes using a case study approach; and Business Metrics Analysis, a research-based approach that determines the effects of your performance improvement effort on your specific metric of interest (e.g., revenue, quota, productivity). All of our Impact Evaluation services can be customized to address your specific needs.


Executive Leader Programs


Programs & Services Description
Global Awareness Leaders and their teams gain an awareness of inter-cultural differences in interactions and learn how to be more effective at conducting business across cultures. With a greater depth of knowledge they will avoid cultural misunderstandings and conduct business more efficiently and effectively.
The Leader Manager This business leadership skills course provides a framework and skills for a leader to enable the work unit to achieve Performance with Fulfillment—the combination of high performance and high satisfaction from meaningful work done well. It teaches managers how to make the shift from simply being managers to being effective leaders.
Leader Navigator This 360-degree feedback process is for leaders at all levels. It evaluates the leadership skills a successful leader needs. The individual report includes recommendations and resources to support developing or improving the leader’s highest-priority skill needs. Results can also be aggregated to look at group-level strengths and development opportunities.
Leadership Forecast Series The Leadership Forecast Series provides important insight about the behavioral tendencies and motivational drivers that can either enhance or inhibit a leader's potential for success.
Leading for Growth Leading for Growth draws on the work of David Bradford and Allan Cohen, authors of Power Up, to help managers develop leadership skills and create high-performing work groups with high levels of alignment, commitment, and common purpose.
Leading from Within Leading from Within is a unique leadership program that helps leaders increase their leadership effectiveness capabilities by identifying gaps between their beliefs and actions. The course provides the processes and tools to lead from personal reference points, such as purpose and values, and develops leadership skills that advance personal capacity.
Leading in Challenging Times This business leadership skills course helps leaders understand their role in implementing business strategy, and helps them execute strategy during times of change, take charge of the change process, and refocus people’s energy to move positively through change.
Negotiating to Yes Negotiating to Yes provides leaders and professionals with personal influence and negotiation skills. This course is based on the best-selling work of Dr. William Ury of the Harvard Negotiation Team. This leadership course builds skills in questioning, listening, problem solving, persuading, strategizing, and countering the unfair tactics used by others.
Situational Judgment Test A Situational Judgment Test is a tool used to identify how existing (or potential) employees will respond to work-related situations. It uses questions based on highly relevant work situations to provide a method for employers to effectively and efficiently assess employee decision-making. Wilson Learning helps you develop a custom Situational Judgment Test that meets professional and legal requirements for use in either employee selection or development.
Strategic Focusing Workshop™ In these strategic leadership consulting sessions, a Wilson Learning consultant helps senior managers of an organization determine the vision, direction and critical success factors for an important transformation. Executive teams leave this workshop with a clear understanding of where they stand as an organization and a clear direction of how to move forward in the transformation of their business.
Impact Evaluation Our Impact Evaluation services are designed to answer a deceptively simple question – did you get the desired result from your performance improvement efforts? Options include post-course Impact Surveys, which measure behavior and performance changes; Opportunity Reviews that examine employees’ performance changes using a case study approach; and Business Metrics Analysis, a research-based approach that determines the effects of your performance improvement effort on your specific metric of interest (e.g., revenue, quota, productivity). All of our Impact Evaluation services can be customized to address your specific needs.